Conn. Ponders Mental Health

By

Joseph De Avila

Jan. 29, 2013 10:41 p.m. ET

The commission looking to overhaul Connecticut's mental-health system, appointed after the deadly rampage at a Newtown school, doesn't actually know whether the man who committed those crimes was ever treated for mental illness. And due to privacy laws, the commission may never know.

"Adam Lanza, so far, remains a black box," said Harold Schwartz, psychiatrist in chief at Hartford Hospital's Institute of Living and a...